DNV enters strategic partnership with SSE on digital resilience and cybersecurity
How can organizations make sound decisions when cyber threats, geopolitical uncertainty, and technological change make the environment increasingly unpredictable? The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and DNV will explore this question through a new five-year partnership.
A global thought leader on assurance and risk management, the Norwegian company DNV will become a long-term partner of the Center for Security and Resilience at SSE under a five-year partnership agreement.
This initiative comes as a response to an increasingly complex risk environment. Digitalization and emerging technologies create new opportunities, but also new vulnerabilities. At the same time, organizations face cyber threats, geopolitical tensions, and growing interdependencies between critical systems. As a result, digital resilience, the ability to withstand and recover quickly from cyber incidents, outages and technology failures, has become a strategic priority for organizations worldwide.
“The Stockholm School of Economics has been an early mover in developing research and academic programs in digital resilience and cybersecurity. What makes SSE particularly interesting to us is how it connects these fields with governance and decision-making,” says Klas Bendrik, Chief Digital and Development Officer at DNV. “This intersection is where many of the most important challenges facing organizations today can be found.”
When security becomes a leadership responsibility
The partnership will connect academic research with experience from the business community. DNV will contribute insights from its work in technology, security, risk management, and trust across industries and markets.
“In a rapidly changing world, companies need to remain resilient even when conditions shift quickly. This partnership will allow us to deepen our understanding of what makes organizations resilient and how leaders and boards can put that knowledge into practice,” says Lars Strannegård, President of the Stockholm School of Economics.
For DNV, the partnership also marks a further development of the company’s research collaborations. DNV has a long history of working with universities. DNV makes resilience a key component of its approach to risk management, focusing on it as a necessity when facing new digital threats. No organization can expect to defend against every cyber-attack, committing to resilience planning is key.
“Technology alone cannot make an organization resilient,” Klas Bendrik says. “How organizations are governed, how leaders set priorities, and how decisions are made under uncertainty are becoming increasingly important. We want to contribute to research that can give organizations a stronger foundation for navigating this reality.”
Executing on Nordic collaboration
The partnership will also strengthen interaction between academia, business, and society across the Nordic region. This is particularly relevant at a time when cybersecurity, preparedness, and societal resilience are becoming increasingly important.
In addition to joint research projects, the partnership will also strengthen several other initiatives within the Stockholm School of Economics and the Center for Security and Resilience. Among other things, it will contribute to the newly created Nordic Defense MBA program and the Nordic Security and Competitiveness Day hosted every year in November at SSE.
“Both DNV and SSE are Nordic leaders within their respective fields. Through this partnership, we want to accelerate Nordic collaboration,” says Lars Strannegård. “A scientific approach is the base for awareness and action within the important fields of digital resilience and cybersecurity.”
For more information, please contact:
Martin Carlsson-Wall Professor and Director of the Center for Security and Resilience Tel: +46 730 44 09 00 Email: martin.carlsson-wall@hhs.se
Arve Johan Kalleklev Vice President & Director of Operations, DNV Tel: +47 977 94 326 Email: arve.johan.kalleklev@dnv.com